CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES / CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."
Thomas Mann

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"A man that doesn't stand for something will fall for anything." - Peter Marshall

"[s]imply because the decision of a parent is not agreeable to a child or because it involves risks does not automatically transfer the power to make that decision from the parents to some agency or officer of the state." - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Adversity does not build character…it reveals it." - John Wooden

"Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.